<p>-Male
-8th grade
-Public school
-Caucasian
-Live in Massachusetts</p>
<p>About me:</p>
<p>-I play outdoor soccer for a travel team (8 years)
-I play indoor soccer for a club team (3 years)
-I snow ski (8 years).
-I am on the math team at my school in the IMLEM league. In 6th grade, I was 5th in the state and in 7th grade, I was 6th. (3 years)
-I read a lot (5 hours outside of schoolwork minimum per week)
-I am a jigsaw puzzle junkie. (I do puzzles with up to 3,000 pieces for 0-30 hours a week)
^^^ This is my art.
-I am a straight-A student, and have been from 6-8th grade.
-I moved up two years in math because I didn't feel challenged.
-I won my town spelling bee.
-I've been in my town's newspaper twice, one of them being a whole page article just about me. (8,000 people in my town btw).
-I would say I'm kind and I was recently voted "most likely to succeed".
-My interview was as good as it could get; no standard question was asked and our conversation never had an awkward pause.
-My SSAT percentile is 98 (94 in verbal, 99 in math, 97 in reading).
-My short answers were perfect and recommendations most likely were.
-My essay is creative and probably different than the others (I'll attach if you want me to).</p>
<p>I might've left something out, but that's the basic jist. Be brutally honest please.</p>
<p>I think you have a chance
Your SSATS were good and you said your recommendations and short answers were great too!
I like you interest of puzzles. Very unique.
The problem is… Andover is Extremely selective and you need to have something phenomenal in your application.
What private schools really look into the most is academics, ECs, interviews…the advancement in you math will help.
You have straight A’s which is scary to but not unique to the admissions
You said your interview was great. But was there a connection? Do you think the interviewer had a great time talking to you? If so, that will BOOST your applications.
Hm…ur mentioning in the “mostly likely to succeed” is great but I don’t think its gonna help ur application…but ur interest in puzzles is awesome though!
I really feel that you should put more EC’s to your application, i don’t think theres enough…Add that you play basketball or tennis for fun… im sure that will help
For ex: I am learning french, chinese, japanese, spanish…
But honestly, I think you have a chance; i doubt Andover would reject you but you might be waitlisted (thats not bad depending on your place)</p>
<p>Wow. You don’t need many EC’s just so it can look interesting. What you have is enough and just because you are learning 4 different languages doesn’t mean you will get accepted.</p>
<p>I think you have a pretty good chance, but do you have anything that really stands out about yourself? It seems like you have placed many contests. But what is special to you?</p>